Please upgrade to (at least) i0coin-0.8.3-2 (or current git HEAD, branch i0coin-0.8.x) as soon as possible. All old clients are on an unsafe, unsupported and mostly stale fork of the I0coin blockchain. The fork occured on September 10th.

I0C (logo by Lightlord), our favourite non-premined, fully decentralised, merged minable altcoin is back. I0coin used to require a lot of memory, about 8.2GB. The updated version only uses about 250MB (fully synced). The problem was fixed by moving data from memory storage to disk storage (this data was almost never used, it just took up space). Technical details are in the git log.

Merged minable means you can mine this coin for free while mining BTC. The new release is compatible with the old one, users using the old crashy and memory-hungry client will see the same blockchain as users of the new client. The old client is incompatible with the old client after block 895079, you should use the new client.

Short instructions on how to join the network, and start merged mining with P2Pool:

If you want to download binaries for windows or GNU/Linux, you can find release 0.8.6-1 on my i0coin website.

The sourcecode is in a git repository on github. The recommended branch (currently i0coin-0.8.x) is automatically selected. If you want to compile the program yourself, do:

Note, the seednodes are currenty hardcoded in the program, so the addnode= lines don't really do anything.

Run the daemon and let it sync. At the start of this resurrection, there were about 848000 blocks in the blockchain. Please open incoming port 7333 in your firewall, the network needs externally reachable nodes to grow.

Let's earn some coin with P2Pool. Miners that already are merged mining GG,NVC,IXC,DVC already know what to do.

If you point your miner to localhost:9332 you will earn BTC, it will be sent directly to your wallet. In addition, without extra cost, you will get free I0coins. If you want to earn yet more coins (like IXC,DVC,NMC), please see this excellent topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62842.0. After that you should be able to figure GG out yourself.

I've compiled a windows binary. It can be found in the 'updates' section of the announcement. Please test it. (note, it has no gui, it's just a system service, to communicate with it you run (in another terminal) "i0coind.exe getinfo", for example, or "i0coind.exe help" to see all commands) In "Application Data" there will be a directory called I0coin, in this directory you will find the file debug.log. See inside to know what i0coind.exe is doing.

I0C (logo by Lightlord), our favourite non-premined, fully decentralised, merged minable altcoin is back. I0coin used to require a lot of memory, about 8.2GB. The updated version only uses about 250MB (fully synced). The problem was fixed by moving data from memory storage to disk storage (this data was almost never used, it just took up space). Technical details are in the git log.

Merged minable means you can mine this coin for free while mining BTC. The new release is compatible with the old one, users using the old crashy and memory-hungry client will see the same blockchain as users of the new client.

Short instructions on how to join the network, and start merged mining with P2Pool:

The sourcecode is in a git repository on github. The recommended branch (currently i0coin-0.8.x) is automatically selected.

If you point your miner to localhost:9332 you will earn BTC, it will be sent directly to your wallet. In addition, without extra cost, you will get free I0coins. If you want to earn yet more coins (like IXC,DVC,NMC), please see this excellent topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62842.0 After that you should be able to figure GG out yourself.

I am used to DOS, so using the command prompt is no problem for me. But I really would like to have kind of a manual with the meaning of all the commands. OK, they are kind of "self explanatory", got it. But all the trial and error costs many hours / maybe days. Thanks a lot anyways!

I am used to DOS, so using the command prompt is no problem for me. But I really would like to have kind of a manual with the meaning of all the commands. OK, they are kind of "self explanatory", got it. But all the trial and error costs many hours / maybe days. Thanks a lot anyways!

I am working on the GUI. Compilation in GNU/Linux is fixed (update availabe in git repository) and I replaced some bitcoin logo's by i0coin logos.

Next step is to setup a VM with windows to provide GUI binaries. Don't hold your breath...

Greetings,

Rik.

Nice work Rik. Out of curiosity I started the dusty old I0coin windows gui yesterday for the first time this year. This was on a windows 8 x64 vm and I was surprised to see it find a single connection and begin downloading the chain. It eventually crashed of course, but it took 20mins or so and updated thousands of transactions during that time. Possible you can work backwards from the old windows gui to expedite the update process?

I've compiled a windows binary. It can be found in the 'updates' section of the announcement. Please test it. (note, it has no gui, it's just a system service, to communicate with it you run (in another terminal) "i0coind.exe getinfo", for example, or "i0coind.exe help" to see all commands) In "Application Data" there will be a directory called I0coin, in this directory you will find the file debug.log. See inside to know what i0coind.exe is doing.

Greetings,

Rik.

I've tried those commands but i get an error "'i0coind.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file."How do I fix that?How to find out my wallet address?thanks

Nice work Rik. Out of curiosity I started the dusty old I0coin windows gui yesterday for the first time this year. This was on a windows 8 x64 vm and I was surprised to see it find a single connection and begin downloading the chain. It eventually crashed of course, but it took 20mins or so and updated thousands of transactions during that time. Possible you can work backwards from the old windows gui to expedite the update process?

Cheers.

Thanks!

Well, the linux GUI seems to work. I have replaced most instances of Bitcoin with I0coin. Windows compilation can probably be done by everyone who can compile Bitcoin v0.8.3. Windows GUI binaries will probably be here before the weekend.

Side node: your old node found other nodes through IRC (there are some old nodes active on the network; I keep it running to be able to spot possible incompatibility issues (none expected and none seen so far)).